Trade Globalization since 1795: Waves of Integration in the World-System

By C. Chase-Dunn, Y. Kawano, Benjamin D. Brewer. American Sociological Review, 2000

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The term “globalization” as used by social scientists and in popular discourse has many meanings. We contend that it is important to distinguish between globalization as a contemporary political ideology and what we call structural globalization—the increasing worldwide density of large-scale interaction networks relative to the density of smaller networks. We study one type of economic globalization over the past two centuries: the trajectory of international trade as a proportion of global production. Is trade globalization a recent phenomenon, a long-term upward trend, or a cyclical process? Using an improved measure of trade globalization, we find that there have been three waves since 1795. We discuss the possible causes of these pulsations of global integration and their implications for the early decades of the twenty-first century.

Subfields: Demography, Economics and Econometrics, Political Science and International Relations

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The Consequences of Economic Globalization for Affluent Democracies (2007, background): “At least for affluent democracies, however, the present wave exceeds previous waves (Chase-Dunn et al. 2000).”
Ecologically Unequal Exchange and the Resource Consumption/Environmental Degradation Paradox (2009, background): “While such interactions are far from equal, in the contemporary worldeconomy the majority of nations are interconnected to some extent through trade relationships as well as other forms of structural integration (e.g. ChaseDunn and Jorgenson, 2003; Chase-Dunn et al., 2000; Mahutga, 2006).”
How likely is it that the European Union will disintegrate? A critical analysis of competing theoretical perspectives (2014, background): “But it has also found numerous — theoretical and empirical — defenders (Chase-Dunn et al., 2000; Gowa, 1989; Hubbard, 2010).”
The political-economic causes of change in the ecological footprints of nations, 1991-2001: A quantitative investigation (2007, background): “…of consumption-based environmental impacts by moredeveloped countries to less-developed countries highly dependent on manufacturing exports corresponds with the recent upswing in the globalization of production, Wnance, and trade (Chase-Dunn et al., 2000; Chase-Dunn and Jorgenson, 2003).”
Destination‐Language Proficiency in Cross‐National Perspective: A Study of Immigrant Groups in Nine Western Countries1 (2005, methodology): “Following Chase-Dunn et al. (2000), we use the ratio of the value of national imports to GDP, in percentages, as an indicator of the level of trade globalization in the world-system.”
De-globalization: Theories, predictions, and opportunities for international business research (2019, background): “This is particularly remarkable considering that technology has continued to improve, a development that at least in the past and all else equal facilitated higher levels of economic interdependence (Chase-Dunn et al., 2000; Jones, 2007).”
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